Do we maybe need to look at other solutions, or ways of keeping spammers from harvesting genuninx? It is such a useful tool that it's a bit of a shame to use restriction through obscurity, a tactic that will eventually lose strength.
Just some thoughts. Rainer michelle olson wrote: >Hi Paul, > >You wrote: > >Is there a reason why there isn't a link to the genunix wiki from the main >OpenSolaris page > >The reason is spam. Genunix is a great resource, but the more traffic we >push there, the more interesting it will be to would-be spammers. So, we >should use it as a document collaboration tool, keep the focus on >community authoring, but not publicize it too heavily, to keep it clean. > >When we want to collaborate with the community on projects, we should >use the Projects on opensolaris. > >Thanks, >Michelle > >Paul Kasper wrote: > > >>After looking through the OpenSolaris main page, It appears that you can only >>find a link to the genunix wiki through the documentation community, but it >>appears that the wiki goes beyond just the documentation community. >> >>In fact, the storage team has a need to use the wiki to collaborate with the >>community about upcoming projects/features. So, I know I can add to the >>wiki and point to it from the storage community, but my overall questions >>still stands. >> >>Is there a reason why there isn't a link to the genunix wiki from the main >>OpenSolaris page...if it's available for all the OpenSource communities and >>projects? Since blogs has its own link under the Connect section, how about >>having a wiki link? >> >>Paul >>
